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" I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. "
Karl Kraus
Him
Terrible
Walk
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" There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman. "
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" Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions. "
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" To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all. "
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" It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean. "
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" A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire! "
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" It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new. "
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" A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. "
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" Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. "
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" Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. "
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" A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. "
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" Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram. "
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" Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves. "
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" Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. "
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" Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. "
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" I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up. "
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" I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am. "
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" Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match. "
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" Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave. "
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Everyone
" There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. "
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Him
" I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear. "
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" Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. "
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" You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. "
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" Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. "
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" Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. "
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" Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former. "
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" Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess. "
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" Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. "
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" Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. "
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